From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2006-10-17T14:40:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby Regexp vs Perl and C#

On 10/16/06, Chris Meyers <chrismmeyers@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> line="banana"
> line.scan(/(an)*/) {
>     puts $` + "<<" + $& + ">>" + $' + "\n"
> }

Also, if you do a

  require 'English'

you can write that as

  puts $PREMATCH + "<<" + $MATCH + ">>" + $POSTMATCH

(you don't need the explicit \n if you're using puts)

martin